ㄯ

See also: 𠄎 [U+2010E CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2010E], 乃 [U+4E43 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E43], and ㄋ [U+310B BOPOMOFO LETTER N]

ㄯ U+312F, ㄯ BOPOMOFO LETTER NN [unassigned: U+3130] ← ㄮ [U+312E] Bopomofo ㄱ → [U+3131]

Translingual

Letter

ㄯ

1. type: syllabic consonant
2. general transliteration: n̩

Chinese

Glyph origin

Bopomofo letter ㄋ (nē) with a vertical line (丨 (gǔn)), which represents a syllabic consonant.

Letter

ㄯ

1. (rare, archaic) A letter of the Zhuyin alphabet representing the sound IPA^(key): /n̩/ (Pinyin: n)

   alt. forms: ㄋ (nē)

Usage notes

• This representation of a character appears mostly in earlier works, most notably 國語辭典／国语辞典 [Dictionary of the National Language], but still appearing in some Taiwanese texts.

References

• 全國主要方言區方音對照表, Chinese Character Reform Commission, Beijing: ZhonghuaBook Company, 1954
• Unicode Bopomofo block description: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3100.pdf
• West, Andrew (2016-04-21), Proposal to encode one Bopomofo letter